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To: going hot

No, 16. Over a hundred years ago it would have been 1 but “modern” math says 16. You can check it out here: https://educationtrick.com/2019/07/31/what-is-8%C3%B7222-the-correct-answer-explained/


75 posted on 08/03/2019 5:09:55 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( Be kind to your children. They will determine where you live when you get old.)
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To: New Jersey Realist
Numbers are such neat things.

8 divided by the quantity 2(2+2) can be written 8/2(2+2)

So, if the answer is 16, then 8/2(2+2) =16 is an equation which is true.

Substituting for the number in parenthesis, using X for the 2, looks like this :

8/2(x+x) = 16

8= 16 times 2(2x)

8= 16 times 4 x

8= 64 X

x = .125, which it does not. However, if 8 /2(2+2) = 1

8/ 2(x+x)=1

8 = 1 times 2(2x)

8 = 4x 8/4 =x

2 = x

it comes down to how the expression 2(2+2) is handled, not how one enters it into a calculator, because by definition, entering it into a calculator when it is expressed in long form must be entered as it is written. However, the expression 2(2+2) has to be treated as one number, same as if it were x(y+y) would be entered as how it reads, but in reality it is considered the number x2y.

87 posted on 08/03/2019 10:32:31 AM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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